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Make Your Own Guitar Picks

Nov 2, 2017

The reality is that guitar picks really aren’t that expensive. But I became pretty annoyed at purchasing them again, and again, and again on Amazon. Ironically, after visiting an Indian American and Western Art museum, I discovered that you can…

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4th Graders Are FREE!

Jul 12, 2017

You might say, we rode on the coattails of our 4th grader this summer. Like we used the simple fact that he is entering 4th grade to visit not one, but two, national parks and take a joyride up to…

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Why I Share My Life and Struggles

Nov 28, 2016

Sometimes the truth is shocking. And sometimes honesty is uncomfortable. It can even be confusing. Truth can rub us the wrong way and create tension. It confronts a preconceived idea. When I actually sit down to write, the process of…

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The Hardest Homeschooling Year

Nov 21, 2016

Do you ever have good intentions and broadcast them as unrealistic as they may be to the world — or rather your Facebook wall? Then you find that you end up eating crow? The objective was to journal our Classical Conversations Challenge…

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My Journey as a Challenge A Director Pre-Week 1

Aug 18, 2016

My degree is in Secondary Education with English. This gives me a marginal degree of confidence being a Challenge A Director and tutor for Classical Conversations this year. Except that everything I learned in college related to learning and education hasn’t…

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